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PostRe: Halo 4 - reveal at Spring Showcase? (29th Feb)
by GlassjAw » Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:22 pm

Eighthours wrote:Sounds good, apart from my "uh-oh" about the mention of storytelling. Bungie were gooseberry fool at storytelling, except, ironically, when they barely did any in Halo 1 and it enhanced the experience because we were doing the work.


That's why from a campaign point of view Halo:CE is still the best, the sense of scale and abandonment was second to none at the time. The game was just such a mystery.

Would love it if the first game of the new trilogy left the player surrounded in the same type of mystery and intrigue.

... I don't want a giant tentacle plant ruining things.

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PostRe: Halo 4 - reveal at Spring Showcase? (29th Feb)
by Fargo » Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:41 pm

Reach and ODST had fantastic stories. Especially ODST. They were nice and simple with a focus on characters that were believable and likeable told in environments full of atmosphere.

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PostRe: Halo 4 - reveal at Spring Showcase? (29th Feb)
by Frank » Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:52 pm

Fargo wrote:Reach

Fargo wrote:characters that were likeable


The only decent character in Reach was the gentle-giant. Everyone else was an imbecile (especially the cliched short-hair butch woman. Her death couldn't have come soon enough).

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PostRe: Halo 4 - reveal at Spring Showcase? (29th Feb)
by evanswolves » Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:52 pm

glowy69 wrote:Anyone that has read cryptum, can you just let me know if Im following the book correctly as nothing is explained very well

Main character and two people have a destiny with an old warrior in a cryptum, the didact who is a warrior
The forerunners had a massive war with the humans
The humans at a time were in cohorts with the prophets
The forerunners invented the engineers
The forerunners built these weapons to protect planets..which im guessing are prototype halo rings
The thing that has the didact spooked and that has escaped is something to do with the flood?


correct yes :)
As for what has Didact spooked... theres Primordium for you to read :)

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PostRe: Halo 4 - reveal at Spring Showcase? (29th Feb)
by Glowy69 » Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:56 pm

evanswolves wrote:
glowy69 wrote:Anyone that has read cryptum, can you just let me know if Im following the book correctly as nothing is explained very well

Main character and two people have a destiny with an old warrior in a cryptum, the didact who is a warrior
The forerunners had a massive war with the humans
The humans at a time were in cohorts with the prophets
The forerunners invented the engineers
The forerunners built these weapons to protect planets..which im guessing are prototype halo rings
The thing that has the didact spooked and that has escaped is something to do with the flood?


correct yes :)
As for what has Didact spooked... theres Primordium for you to read :)


:mrgreen:

Thank god for that. I was thinking Id go through the whole book and get it wrong :oops:

Starting to ramp up now, Ive got to to the bit where he is mutating

As for halo stories

Halo 3>>2>>CE>>Reach>>>ODST

I enjoy everything around the universe which is why I enjoyed 3 the best. And ODST the least. Not saying its the best game

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PostRe: Halo 4 - reveal at Spring Showcase? (29th Feb)
by Jax » Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:58 am

The gun recording was difficult because we needed to record close sounds, distant sounds, and everything in between. We had to figure out what microphone, what distance, and what range was appropriate while factoring in weather, wind, and anything and everything Mother Nature might randomly decide to throw our way.


Have any of these guys ever done this by themselves before? I'm pretty sure all devs have to do stuff just like this.

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PostRe: Halo 4 - reveal at Spring Showcase? (29th Feb)
by Skippy » Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:32 am

Anung wrote:CE > ODST > Reach > 3 > 2


Anung knows the truth

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PostRe: Halo 4 - reveal at Spring Showcase? (29th Feb)
by Fargo » Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:43 am

Haven't played anniversary yet myself but that looks good to me.

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PostRe: Halo 4
by Garth » Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:59 am

New 343 Sparkast (podcast): http://halo.xbox.com/Content/assets/en- ... intrss.xml
It's February, and to help celebrate this leap year we invited, Studio Creative Director, Josh Holmes and, Executive Producer, Kiki Wolfkill to join David Ellis and Frank O'Connor to talk about the ongoing development progress for Halo 4. In this episode we cover the gamut and touch on campaign, multiplayer and new music and sound effects.


BTW the embargo on the Xbox 360 Spring Showcase ends on the 5th of March apparently, so we may get some Halo 4 news then - excite! :mrgreen:

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PostRe: Halo 4
by tomvek » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:03 am

I shall be counting down the days :D

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PostRe: Halo 4
by Garth » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:14 pm

Halo 4 info from the latest Sparkast episode, courtesy of Shadow:
http://www.littleenglishhaloblog.com/20 ... kcast.html

Y u no post it here? (屮ಠ益ಠ)屮

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PostRe: Halo 4
by Garth » Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:11 pm

Campaign and multiplayer have been shown at the Spring Showcase, we'll see some stuff on Monday! :mrgreen:

(confirmed by a journo via Twitter)

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PostRe: Halo 4
by Glowy69 » Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:14 pm

Loving cryptum.

Just got to the bit about the humans facing the flood and the word "halo" being usedIts truly amazing :wub:

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PostRe: Halo 4
by Codename 47 » Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:40 pm

Garth wrote:Campaign and multiplayer have been shown at the Spring Showcase, we'll see some stuff on Monday! :mrgreen:

(confirmed by a journo via Twitter)


Awesome :D Finally looks like we're going to be getting the first proper solid info on Monday. I'm quite keen to see how the game is looking graphically. We shouldn't judge a game by it's graphics...but let's be honest a lot of people do. A really brilliant looking game that blows the previous Halo's out of the water would be a good statement of intent from 343. Not really interested in the multiplayer, i'm more excited about how the Campaign is shaping up :shifty:

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PostRe: Halo 4
by Shadow » Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:05 pm

Garth wrote:Halo 4 info from the latest Sparkast episode, courtesy of Shadow:
http://www.littleenglishhaloblog.com/20 ... kcast.html

Y u no post it here? (屮ಠ益ಠ)屮


:lol: GRcade access has been blocked on my work's network. Presumably the amount of time I was spending here flagged up with IT somewhere. :shifty: :oops:

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PostRe: Halo 4
by tomvek » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:08 am

Codename 47 wrote:Awesome :D Finally looks like we're going to be getting the first proper solid info on Monday. I'm quite keen to see how the game is looking graphically. We shouldn't judge a game by it's graphics...but let's be honest a lot of people do. A really brilliant looking game that blows the previous Halo's out of the water would be a good statement of intent from 343. Not really interested in the multiplayer, i'm more excited about how the Campaign is shaping up :shifty:

Yeah I'm also really excited to see the new engine :)

Replaying some of the older games recently just makes me want a new Halo game even more, especially as it's the return of Master Chief and Cortana :wub:

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PostRe: Halo 4
by Shadow » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:41 am

First leaked shots http://www.littleenglishhaloblog.com/20 ... shots.html

Terrible quality and only of menus, but they look legit. That's the first blog post I've done with the iPhone app, I'm not at my PC so please let me know if it's not displaying properly.

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PostRe: Halo 4
by Peter Crisp » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:42 am

If they change it I will be amazed if they can make anything as iconic as the Halo music so many people love now. It must be a bit of a git trying to follow something with so many fond memories for fans.

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PostRe: Halo 4
by Shadow » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:47 am

Peter Crisp wrote:If they change it I will be amazed if they can make anything as iconic as the Halo music so many people love now. It must be a bit of a git trying to follow something with so many fond memories for fans.


Apparently it respects the legacy of Halo's music, but does not mimic it.

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PostRe: Halo 4
by tomvek » Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:05 am

Nice to see some shots even if they're just menus :)

Your post looks fine in my browser Shadow.

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